If you let it (pavement maintenance) go, you will lose a lot of ground. You need to spend more on pavement in the future.

I'm not selling anything, but we need to be open-minded. The West is opening up to a lot of new ideas, and I hope Nevada is, too.

Clearly you are doing something right here. Nevada has the best pavement in the nation. But your backlog is going to grow. Pavement is the one thing you can't ignore very long.

Some firms will not be able to compete with the salary hikes of the top-tier firms. We will see which firms are really in the premier league and which ones just think that they are.

If you really want to get in you will practice as much as possible in front of different people. This relaxes you and prepares you for auditions.

We couldn't be happier about the new standards. We believe that this will help define the industry in the European community by making quality and uniformity the priority.